UKRAINE - People are deceived by the U.S. / EU - Nazis and fascists in control of government, formed by US and EU. - In this blog, I will provide the information that the Western press is not willing to give. The purpose is to open the eyes of the Norwegian, European and Ukrainian people about what actually happens in Ukraine, and who’s behind. Some text is mine, but also from friends or I borrow/ bring in from other media

mandag 16. april 2018

Caught in a Lie, US & Allies Bomb Syria the Night Before International Inspectors Arrive

The
US, Britain and France trampled international law to launch missiles
against Syria, claiming to have “evidence” of the government’s use of
chemical weapons. That evidence is based on terrorist lies.

After
a week of outrageous tweets and proclamations by POTUS Trump, which
included continued accusations that Syria’s president ordered a chemical
weapons attack on civilians in Douma, east of Damascus, with Trump
using grotesque and juvenile terminology, such as “animal Assad,” the
very evening before chemical weapons inspectors of the OPCW were to
visit Douma, America and allies launched illegal bombings against Syria.
The illegal bombings included 103 missiles, 71 of which Russia states were intercepted.

For
the past week, we were told that the US had ‘evidence’ and the UK had
"evidence" that Syria had used chemicals. The "evidence" largely relied
on video clips and photos shared on social media, provided by the
Western-funded White Helmets (that “rescuer” group that somehow only
operates in Al-Qaeda and co-terrorist occupied areas and participates in
torture and executions), as well as by Yaser al-Doumani, a man whose allegiance to Jaysh al-Islam is clear from his own Facebook posts, for example of former Jaysh al-Islam leader, Zahran Alloush.

This, we were told, was "evidence." This and the words of the highly partial, USAID-funded, US State Department allied Syrian American Medical Society, which, like Al-Qaeda’s rescuers, only supports doctors in terrorist-occupied areas.

On April 12, even US Secretary of Defense James Mattis told the House Armed Services Committee that the US government does not have any evidence that sarin or chlorine was used, that he was still looking for evidence.

Syria,
finding the claims to be lies and the sources tainted, requested that
the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)
immediately come to Syria to investigate the claims. Accordingly, the OPCW agreed to send a team—the visas for which Syria granted immediately—which arrived in Damascus on April 14.

President
Trump, instead of waiting for an investigation to confirm his
"evidence," chose the very night before this investigative team would
arrive in Syria to inspect the allegations, to bomb Syria. The timing of
the attacks is more than just a little timely. And the bombings were
illegal.

General Mattis tried to dance around the legality, stating, “the
president has the authority under Article II of the Constitution to use
military force overseas to defend important United States national
interests.”

But he is wrong, this does not permit the US to illegally bomb a sovereign nation, and he knows it. So does Russia. In a statement on April 14, Russian President Vladimir Putin declared the attacks as illegal, noting:

Without the sanction of the Security Council of the United
Nations, in violation of the UN Charter, norms and principles of
international law, an act of aggression against a sovereign state that
is at the forefront of the fight against terrorism has been committed.

What if chemicals had been at targeted locations?

In the same Pentagon briefing,
General Joseph Dunford specified the US and allies’ targets in Syria,
alleging they were “specifically associated with the Syrian regime's
chemical weapons program.” One target, at which 76 missiles were fired,
was the Barzeh scientific research centre in heavily-populated Damascus
itself, which Dunford claimed was involved in the “development,
production and testing of chemical and biological warfare technology.”

This
"target" is in the middle of a densely-inhabited area of Damascus.
According to Damascus resident Dr. (of business and economy) Mudar
Barakat, who knows the area in question, “the establishment consists of a
number of buildings. One of them is a teaching institute. They are very
close to the homes of the people around.”

Of the strikes, Dunford claimed they “inflicted maximum damage, without unnecessary risk to innocent civilians.”

If
one believed the claims to be accurate, would bombing them really save
Syrian lives, or to the contrary cause mass deaths? Where is the logic
in bombing facilities believed to contain hazardous, toxic chemicals in
or near densely populated areas?

Regarding the actual nature of the buildings bombed, Syrian media, SANA, describes the
Pharmaceutical and Chemical Industries Research Institute as “centered
on preparing the chemical compositions for cancer drugs.” The
destruction of this institute is particularly bitter, as, under the
criminal western sanctions, cancer medicines sales to Syria are
prohibited.

Interviews with one of its employees, Said Said, corroborate SANA’s description of the facility making cancer treatment and other medicinal components. One article includes Said’s
logical point: “If there were chemical weapons, we would not be able to
stand here. I've been here since 5:30 am in full health – I'm not
coughing.”

Of the facility, the same SANA article noted that its
labs had been visited by the OPCW, which issued two reports negating
claims of any chemical weapons activities. This is a point Syria’s
Ambassador al-Ja’afari raised in the April 14 UN Security Council meeting,
noting that the OPCW “handed to Syria an official document which
confirmed that the Barzeh centre was not used for any type of chemical
activity” that would be in contravention to Syria’s obligations
regarding the OPCW.

Bombings based on Al-Qaeda and Jaysh al-Islam Claims

The
entire pretext of the US and allies’ illegal bombings of Syria is
immoral and flawed. There is no evidence to the claims that Syria used
chemicals in Douma. Numerous analysts have pointed out the obvious: that
Syria would not benefit from having used chemical weapons. But America,
Israel, and allies would benefit from staged attacks.

The website Moon of Alabama noted discrepancies in the videos passed around on social media as “evidence” of Syria’s culpability, including the following:

The 'treatment' by the 'rebels', dousing with water and
administering some asthma spray, is unprofessional and many of the
'patients' seem to have no real problem. It is theater. The real medical
personnel are seen in the background working on a real patient.

Russia’s Defense Ministry has released interviews with two
men who were included in the footage alleging a chemical attack has
occurred. One of the men, Halil Ajij, said he worked in the hospital in
question, they had treated people for smoke poisoning, saying: “We
treated them, based on their suffocation," also noting: “We didn’t see
any patient with symptoms of a chemical weapons poisoning,” he said.

In an April 14 interview on Sky News,
the former British Ambassador to Syria, Peter Ford, argued that the
most elementary stage in the accusations game is to allow the actual
inspection to occur.

“The evidence that chemical weapons were
dropped is non-existent. Let the inspectors go in and possibly within
days we will have a verdict but the jury is still out. ...I'm totally
confident that the inspectors will not produce one shred of evidence to
back up the assertions of the Americans. If the Americans had proof,
they’d have brought it forward. What they're saying and what Mrs. May is
saying, is just ‘take our word for it, trust us’. There’s not even a
dodgy dossier this time.”

Israel and America benefit from the attacks... and are guilty of chemical weapons use

While
the world’s eyes have been glazed over by chemical weapons
script-reading journalists of corporate media, little notice is given to
the ongoing Israeli slaughter and maiming of Palestinian unarmed demonstrators, targeted assassinations that last re-began with the March 30 murders of at least 17 unarmed Palestinians protesting
in Gaza’s eastern regions. Israel’s murder of these unarmed youths,
women and men got only mild tut-tuts from the UN, and was relegated
to “clashes” by slavish corporate media. Israel is literally getting
away with murder, as eyes are turned elsewhere.

According to
Secretary Mattis, the US-led illegal attack on Syria “demonstrates
international resolve to prevent chemical weapons from being used on
anyone under any circumstances in contravention of international law.”

The
irony? Both America and its close ally Israel have used chemical
weapons on civilians. The US has attacked civilians in Vietnam and Iraq,
to name but two countries, with chemical weapons.

In 2009, I was
living in Gaza and documenting Israel’s war crimes when Israel bombed
civilians all over Gaza with white phosphorous. These were civilians
with nowhere to run or hide, including civilians who had fled their
homes and taken shelter in a UN-recognized school. I myself documented numerous instances of Israel’s use of white phosphorous.

If
this doesn’t outrage American citizens, the billions of US taxpayers’
dollars sent to Israel and spent on the bombing of sovereign nations —
and not on America’s impoverished, nor on affordable health care —
should outrage.

However, as author Jonathan Cook noted, the issue is not merely Trump’s threats to Syria:

There is bipartisan support for this madness. Hillary
Clinton and the Democratic leadership in the US, and much of the
parliamentary Labour party in the UK, are fully on board with these
actions. In fact, they have been goading Trump into launching attacks.

By not attacking Russian forces in Syria this time, the US narrowly
avoided a direct military confrontation with Russia, one which would
have had global ramifications, to say the least.

The question now
is: will the regime-change alliance be stupid and cruel enough to
support yet another false flag chemical attack in their unending efforts
to depose the Syrian president, or will they give up the game and allow
Syria’s full return to peace? The US and allies claim their concern for
Syrian civilians, but do everything in their power to ensure civilians
suffer from terrorism and sanctions.

Eva Bartlett is a freelance journalist and rights activist with extensive experience in the Gaza Strip and Syria.